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- G. W. McGILL.

- SUSPENSION HOOK No. 359,324. Patented Mar. 15,1887.

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UNI-TED STATES PATENT FFICE,

GEORGE V. MCGILL, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

SUSPENSION-HOOK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 359,324, dated March 15, 1887.

Application filed December 7, 1885. Serial No. 181,921. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, GEORGE W. MoGILL, of New York city, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in suspending Devices and I do hereby declare the following to be a full and exact description thereof, reference bein g had to the accompanying drawings, making part of this specification, and to the figures and letters of reference marked thereon, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

My present invention consists in an improvement on the suspendingdevice described in United States Letters Patent No.2l4,166,issued to me April 8, 1879, which represents and describes a metal staplehavingits head extended on one side and pierced to form aloop or ring, adapting the staple to hang or suspend upon a nail the article in which it is inserted.

The said patented device, like my present improvement thereon, is adapted to beoperated in the staple-inserting. machines patented to me February 18, 1879, and January 24,1882, respectively, and which are known to the public as McGills Patent Single-Stroke Staple- Press.

My present improvement consists of a sheetmetal hook-staple having a broad oblong fiat head or body portion provided at opposite ends with penetrating-shanks, and having an intermediate laterally-projecting hook, said hook and shanks being integral with the body of the device, and the shanks being bent to, a right angle from the longitudinal axis of the oblong body, as hereinafter set forth.

In the accompanying drawings,Figure 1 rep resents the sheet-metal blank from which my improved suspending device is fashioned. Figs. 2 and 3 are perspective views of the completed device. Fig.4 shows-my improved suspending device applied to a collection of papers.

Referring to the figures, the letter designates the staple-head or broad body part of the device b b, its penetratingshanks O, the lateral extension forming its suspending-hook, and e an eye in said extension to enable the device to be suspended on a nail, if so desired.

The device is made in one piece from a sheetmetal blank fashioned as shown in Fig. 1,l1aving a broad imperforate and solid body portion, A, with integral narrow penetratingshanks b b at its ends. This broad body portion A is provided centrally on one edge with an integral lateral extension, 0, the upper portion of which is folded over to form ahook, by means of which the device canbe suspended from a line, cord, or ring.

If desired, an eye, e, may be formed in this hook to enable the device to be conveniently suspended from a nail. The eye 6 can, however, be dispensed with.

The penetrating-shanks b b are bent over at right angles from the head or body part A, as shown in Figs. 2 and 3, to adapt them to be entered and clinched in and upon the article or articles to which the device is to be attached, the manner of applying the device be ing shown in Fig. 4.

In making this suspension device the hook may be folded so as to nose on the side from which the penetrating-shanks project, as shown in Fig. 2, or on the opposite side, as shown in Fig. 3.

It is obvious that by providing the hook with an eye, 6, the device can be suspended either from aline, cord, or ring, or from anail or hook, as may be found most convenient. The broad oblong body portion of the device affords a firm bearing on the article to which it is attached and obviates any liability of splitting or tearing.

This suspension device is adapted to vari ous uses in connecting and suspendingagreat variety of light articles, and is of great convenience when employed for suspending cards and articles of merchandise in show windows and cases, by reason of the facility with which it can be applied either to a line or to rings, hooks, or nails.

I am aware that a lacing-hook has hereto fore been stamped from a sheet-metal blank and provided with an enlarged head-forming portion, a seat portion parallel therewith, a neck arranged to connect the outer edge of the head with the outer edge of the seat, and at taching-prongs projecting at right angles from the opposite lateral edge of the seat on the same line and I am also aware that such fastening devices have comprised a hook projecting laterally from one edge of the body poring laterally from one side edge of said body portion intermediate of the shanks, substan- I 5 tially as shown and described.

2. As an improved article of manufacture, the herein-described hook-staple,composed of sheet metal having a broad fiat head or body portion provided With integral penetrating- 2o shanks at both ends, and an integral laterallyprojeeting hook having an eye formed therein, substantially as described.

GEORGE W. MCGILL.

Witnesses:

EDWIN A. S. BARKELEW, H. O. Antlers. 

